10-year-old girl named Karissa beats top-level Smashers at a West Coast Gamestop

[Dan]

Delete; double post.

 

[Yonder]

I know I'm going to get A LOT of hate for this, but it's just meh. All I see in the news these days [aside from world destruction and misery] is kids around 10-12 making huge accomplishments and whatnot, liking playing piano perfectly or finding some sort of cure, I saw a report about a 14 year old creating some app to shut off phones while driving. Kids are superhumans now lol, so honestly, I'm not super surprised or impressed. a 10 year old could easily win a smash tourney these days.

 

[SanicJan]

I find this really hard to believe, due to her history as an actress. Looking at her Twitter, all she says is how she's aspiring to be an actress or dancer and it has nothing to do with Smash.

She already is an actress. She has her own website. Sky would gain nothing by saying he and multiple people got their butt kicked by a 10 year old if it was a lie. If anything his reputation would go down by a lot. I think it's fake. Maybe she doesn't like competitive Smash and was only doing this for the fun of it and found out how good she was?

 

[Team Plasma N]

Well, time to get better at this game now. There's always room for improvement, but if other players are getting that good so fast, I need some catching up to do.

 

[Gamingboy]

Well, it looks like it probably was a shoot after all.

Drat. And I wanted to believe.

 

[ChikoLad]

I find this really hard to believe, due to her history as an actress. Looking at her Twitter, all she says is how she's aspiring to be an actress or dancer and it has nothing to do with Smash.


There could be a human player playing from off-camera.

So not mentioning Smash on your website or Twitter means you can't possibly play it among yourself and your friends?

Dylan Sprouse is a widely known (former) actor, who also of course was in the media crosshairs due to "that" incident, yet we knew nothing about his love for Smash until this year. He visited Smash tournaments incognito, and had been playing his whole life, and had apparently met D1 while in disguise, and D1 only found out this year. And now, he's commentated at a tournament (maybe more, I'm only aware of the one though).

So no, this girl being an actor does not ruin her credibility, at all.

 

[RoxburyGuy58]

It was staged. Too bad, would have been cool to have a child prodigy.

 

[Team Plasma N]

Well then.... I'm still aspired to get better.

 

[ToadsterOven]

It was staged. Too bad, would have been cool to have a child prodigy.

I saw that on reddit just now and iirc, it was deemed a fake image.

 

[Gamingboy]

I saw that on reddit just now and iirc, it was deemed a fake image.

Wait, so you are saying there's still a chance?

#IWantToBelieve

 

[ToadsterOven]

Wait, so you are saying there's still a chance?

#IWantToBelieve

Yes. Until D1 comes out and says "lol I was trolling you guyz the entire time" which I doubt someone like him would even consider doing because of how much respect he has in our community, I'd say there's still a chance that the 10 year old girl being good at smash 4 is legitimate.

 

[Tattles]

She would completely take her eyes off of the screen and then KO people. She's just a cute kid that got an acting job to probably promote herself (via parents/agent) rather than the thought of a 10 year-old girl beating top players. She'll probably have her own Disney show next year.

I understand that people loved the thought of it, and it would've been a pretty sweet thing had it been legitimate; but the extent to which people are disappointed, outraged, and even disgusted is astounding and downright stupid.

 

[Supermodel From Paris]

https://twitter.com/kkbannister
https://www.facebook.com/KarissaBannister
http://www.karissabannister.com/

She's an actress in the LA area. According to her facebook, she was at an audition on the a few days before a photo posted on the 6th. Friend who was at the event who played and lost to "Karissa" says it's questionable that she was actually playing.

 

[Amiibo Doctor]

I honestly hope this ISN'T real. The top Smash players just got a lot of attention, but if news stations look at this and decide the Smash community is so terrible that it isn't worth reporting on, it could have a harmful effect. It's unlikely that could happen, but if it is confirmed that everyone we know and love are getting their butts kicked by a ten year old, that means we as a whole lose a lot of face.

 

[JipC]

Wait, so you are saying there's still a chance?

#IWantToBelieve

The casting website sure as hell is real. Anyone could go on there right now and find the listing I bet.

 

[Amiibo Doctor]

What if D1 was P1 and someone else was P2? After all, he could've agreed to act as well.

 

[Tattles]

What if D1 was P1 and someone else was P2? After all, he could've agreed to act as well.

I doubt it. I'm more concerned about who it was behind the scenes that was Player 1. D1 is not necessarily a pro-player, and he was playing what people consider a bottom tier character, against what people consider a top tier character (both Shiek and Diddy). But this is assuming that he tried, which I don't think he did.

 

[Amiibo Doctor]

I doubt it. I'm more concerned about who it was behind the scenes that was Player 1. D1 is not necessarily a pro-player, and he was playing what people consider a bottom tier character, against what people consider a top tier character (both Shiek and Diddy). But this is assuming that he tried, which I don't think he did.

That could be true as well. If I were put into that spot, I'd let the girl win just to be a gentleman. What if D1 didn't know she was an actor, and simply let her win for chivalrous reasons? And the GameStop filmed it because of marketing purposes?

That's just a theory. A Game Theory!

 

[Dan]

What if D1 was P1 and someone else was P2? After all, he could've agreed to act as well.

D2 was P2.

 

[Amiibo Doctor]

D2 was P2.

Do we know that for certain, though? (I haven't seen the video in a few hours, my memory is probably a tad off). What tells you who's who, in the video?

 

[Gamingboy]

That could be true as well. If I were put into that spot, I'd let the girl win just to be a gentleman. What if D1 didn't know she was an actor, and simply let her win for chivalrous reasons? And the GameStop filmed it because of marketing purposes?

That's just a theory. A Game Theory!

It'll be interesting if in a few days Gamestop releases an advertisement featuring this. Could be neat to see SSBers on TV, even if they are fake-losing to a 10-year-old girl in it.

 

[Dan]

"That ain't Karissa!"

 

[Yoshi Kirishima]

Regardless of if they lost on purpose or not, her level of play is impressive for a 10 year old.

Also it should be "high level" not "top level". Which would then make this more believable and make more sense.

Edit: Oh, fake as in it wasn't her playing, haha. Ok that explains it

 

[Darklink401]

It'll be interesting if in a few days Gamestop releases an advertisement featuring this. Could be neat to see SSBers on TV, even if they are fake-losing to a 10-year-old girl in it.

They had a professional-looking camera, I wouldn't be surprised.

It'd be cool if it was her actually playing, and honestly, it's not IMPOSSIBLE, because if you look at it from a certain perspective, she was playing WELL, but she WAS attacking simplistically most of the time.

She didn't even edgeguard, most of the time, did she?

^ best we can hope for.

 

[Captain Norris]

They had a professional-looking camera, I wouldn't be surprised.

It'd be cool if it was her actually playing, and honestly, it's not IMPOSSIBLE, because if you look at it from a certain perspective, she was playing WELL, but she WAS attacking simplistically most of the time.

She didn't even edgeguard, most of the time, did she?

^ best we can hope for.

she edge guarded with sheik pretty well. in the first match of the video. At least, someone did.

 

[Darklink401]

she edge guarded with sheik pretty well. in the first match of the video. At least, someone did.

Mhmm, that's why i said most of the time, because with Sheik she did do it well.

And it seems it was confirmed by one of the players that there WAS indeed an apparently pro player playing for her with a 3rd controller, but his identity was kept confidential, so D1 could keep his job.

 

[Gamingboy]

Somebody, somewhere, is making T-shirts for the competitive smash community that say "I am Karissa"

 

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